jamsessionein
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I decided this morning while I was eyeballing a couple of the projects I have undertaken that I needed to do something. See, I keep pouring money into the hobby, and while I am ending up with a decent looking Ork army for my efforts, it\'s still not too kind on my wallet. I\'ve never made a model just to sell before - I generally end up getting attached to the silly things after I do a bit of work on them! Still, I\'m wondering if maybe going into the project with the sole aim of later selling it might not be a bad approach.
In any event, I poked around through the bits and pieces I have on-hand and came up with a reasonably good parts list to create a Necron Pylon. I have the plastic frame from an old, broken motion sculpture from a few years back...
And a decent number of leftover parts from a Monolith kit. I started taking some of the bits from the top of the monolith and plasticarding them shut so that they would look more like the parts on Forgeworld\'s Necron Pylon.
It\'s not a perfect job, but it didn\'t have to be. I simply plated both of the three-pronged parts shut - it only took about an hour and a half or so, which isn\'t bad, considering.
The I mixed up some Apoxie-Sculpt. This stuff is a two part putty that can be spread on really thin and smooth. I covered the surfaces I had just made in them in an attempt to even out any bumps or lower spots. I let it harden and then sanded it down a little bit and generally cleaned the parts up. Apoxiesculpt looks semi-transparent when it is very thin, which is why some of the areas in the next few pictures look uncovered, but I assure you that the inside of the fins is completely smooth.
As you can tell, I mounted the fins onto the body of the pylon and then fit the crystal-holder into the middle. I added some of the gauss weapon nozzles from a monolith to the tips just to give it a bit more presence. Pretty much everything on the model is pinned together so that whenever I end up selling the model I\'ll be able to ship it without any fears.
The pylon is mostly undetailed at the moment. I\'m going to be adding a fair amount of detail in when I find myself with some free time to kill. In the mean time, I have been brainstorming the base a little bit and I thought I might ask for some feedback.
This is the bottom of a monolith:
I\'m a bit apprehensive to building the \'feet\' of the pylon right now in a style similar to that of the Forgeworld version simply because I don\'t really feel like making 4 or 6 of the same curved part - it\'s a pain in the ass. I was thinking of maybe using this as a base instead.
Here you can see the pylon sitting atop the monolith part. I\'m very strongly considering cutting about half an inch away from around the bottom so that the base of the conical part is narrow enough to fit inside the center \'ring\' on the monolith\'s part - this would also allow the model to turn while the base remains stationary. I\'m not sure if I want to go ahead and do it, though... some feedback on the idea in general would be appreciated.
In any event, I poked around through the bits and pieces I have on-hand and came up with a reasonably good parts list to create a Necron Pylon. I have the plastic frame from an old, broken motion sculpture from a few years back...
And a decent number of leftover parts from a Monolith kit. I started taking some of the bits from the top of the monolith and plasticarding them shut so that they would look more like the parts on Forgeworld\'s Necron Pylon.
It\'s not a perfect job, but it didn\'t have to be. I simply plated both of the three-pronged parts shut - it only took about an hour and a half or so, which isn\'t bad, considering.
The I mixed up some Apoxie-Sculpt. This stuff is a two part putty that can be spread on really thin and smooth. I covered the surfaces I had just made in them in an attempt to even out any bumps or lower spots. I let it harden and then sanded it down a little bit and generally cleaned the parts up. Apoxiesculpt looks semi-transparent when it is very thin, which is why some of the areas in the next few pictures look uncovered, but I assure you that the inside of the fins is completely smooth.
As you can tell, I mounted the fins onto the body of the pylon and then fit the crystal-holder into the middle. I added some of the gauss weapon nozzles from a monolith to the tips just to give it a bit more presence. Pretty much everything on the model is pinned together so that whenever I end up selling the model I\'ll be able to ship it without any fears.
The pylon is mostly undetailed at the moment. I\'m going to be adding a fair amount of detail in when I find myself with some free time to kill. In the mean time, I have been brainstorming the base a little bit and I thought I might ask for some feedback.
This is the bottom of a monolith:
I\'m a bit apprehensive to building the \'feet\' of the pylon right now in a style similar to that of the Forgeworld version simply because I don\'t really feel like making 4 or 6 of the same curved part - it\'s a pain in the ass. I was thinking of maybe using this as a base instead.
Here you can see the pylon sitting atop the monolith part. I\'m very strongly considering cutting about half an inch away from around the bottom so that the base of the conical part is narrow enough to fit inside the center \'ring\' on the monolith\'s part - this would also allow the model to turn while the base remains stationary. I\'m not sure if I want to go ahead and do it, though... some feedback on the idea in general would be appreciated.
